Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #337 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by vnprc to discuss Newsletter #337.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #337
This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares and describes a new proposal for enabling offchain resolution of DLCs. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss Newsletter #336.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336
This week’s newsletter describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners, summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks, and discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetry variant with optional penalties. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335 Recap Podcast
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss Newsletter #335.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335
This week’s newsletter links to information about longstanding deanonymization vulnerabilities in software using centralized coinjoin protocols and summarizes an update to a draft BIP about the ChillDKG distributed key generation protocol compatible with scriptless threshold signing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #334 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special
The seventh annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2024. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #333 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #333
This week’s newsletter describes a vulnerability that allowed stealing from old versions of various LN implementations, announces a deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software, summarizes a post and discussion about LN channel depletion, links to a poll for opinions about selected covenant proposals, describes two types of incentive-based pseudo-covenants, and references summaries of the periodic in-person Bitcoin Core developer meeting. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, listing changes to services and client software, linking to popular Bitcoin Stack Exchange questions and answers, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s Lightning Network channel depletion research.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #332 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #332.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #332
This week’s newsletter announces the disclosure of a transaction censorship vulnerability and summarizes discussion about the consensus cleanup soft fork proposal. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #331 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #331.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #331
This week’s newsletter summarizes several recent discussions about a Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting and includes our regular sections with descriptions of popular questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #330 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Vojtěch Strnad, Moonsettler, Brandon Black, Ethan Heilman, and Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #330.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #330
This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposed change to the LN specification to allow pluggable channel factories, links to a report and a new website for examining transactions on the default signet that use proposed soft forks, describes an update to the LNHANCE multi-part soft fork proposal, and discusses a paper about covenants based on grinding rather than consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent changes to services, client software, and popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #329 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt discusses Newsletter #329.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #329
This week’s newsletter summarizes a new offchain payment resolution protocol and links to papers about potential IP-layer tracking and censorship of LN payments. Also included are announcements of new releases and release candidates (including security critical updates for BTCPay Server) and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #328 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gregory Sanders discuss Newsletter #328.
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